{"id":20583,"date":"2026-03-01T12:24:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=20583"},"modified":"2026-03-01T12:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:27:42","slug":"backlash-and-weird-leaks-iran-war-spawns-disturbing-sideshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/01\/backlash-and-weird-leaks-iran-war-spawns-disturbing-sideshow\/","title":{"rendered":"Backlash and Weird Leaks: Iran War Spawns Disturbing Sideshow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[T]he administration\u2019s latest military escalation is boosting a perception globally that could permanently and significantly hurt America\u2019s and Americans\u2019 role in the world: the view of the U.S. as a rogue actor, fueling instability, acting illogically and even illegally and risking innocent lives.&#8221; <em>HuffPo<\/em> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/trump-justice-iran-war-boosts-fears-rogue_n_69a38e00e4b0213c06763495\">Akbar Shahid Ahmed&#8217;s analysis of the growing backlash = and the potential cost<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sacrificed by the pedos&#8221;. <em>Raw Story<\/em> summarizes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/three-service-members-killed-iran\/\">the scathing social media reaction to the deaths of US service members in Trump&#8217;s War<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mediaite<\/em> has today&#8217;s &#8220;loose lips&#8221; headline: &#8220;Four Guys Walked Into a DC Bar And Bragged About Iran Strikes Hours Before The Military Operation: TMZ&#8221;. Read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/four-guys-walked-into-a-dc-bar-and-bragged-about-iran-strikes-hours-before-the-military-operation-tmz\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also <em>Mediaite<\/em>: &#8220;\u2018We Need Answers!\u2019 Congressman Calls Out Polymarket Bettor Who Scored More Than $500K \u2018Overnight\u2019 On Iran Strike&#8221;. Details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/we-need-answers-congressman-calls-out-polymarket-bettor-who-scored-more-than-500k-overnight-on-iran-strike\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING HARD\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wave of fury and scandal is growing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20583"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20593,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20583\/revisions\/20593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}